Mary Gostelow

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Editorial Director at Girlahead

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KUALA LUMPUR - 1

4 days ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

It’s been a long time since Kuala Lumpur was in the diary, but Girlahead is back. It’s all new at the airport, however. First and Business class are separated from the mass as soon as you deplane. You walk into a soft blue and white environment with comfortable seating and white walls – it looks more like a Harley Street doctor’s waiting area than an airport arrival. And then you’re put in a small bus with comfortable seating for everybody.
ORIENT EXPRESS - 5

4 days ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

You can really keep fit at Orient Express La Minerva in the centre of Rome. First of all, the building is actually constructed for those who want to keep fit. Look up the whole time. The palace put up in 1602 for the Fonseca family from Portugal used to have a central courtyard. That’s been glassed over – see above. Look up to it and your double chin might disappear. It’s beautiful (the courtyard, that is) and it’s magnificently lit.
ORIENT EXPRESS - 4

5 days ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

Well, well, well. When you put together two guys, one from North Carolina and one from Italy, what do you get? You could get the inside of a train, but not any old train. It’s Dolce Vita, Orient Express. Britt Moran is from North Carolina.
ORIENT EXPRESS - 2

1 week ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

Honestly, GirlAhead had never, ever had such an action-packed 23 hours as occurred in Rome a couple of days ago. Arrival from the airport in a Mercedes provided by Orient Express Minerva. Greeted by General Manager Filip Boyan. Yes, he’s taken over. He, like Flashman in George MacDonald Fraser’s books, is always everywhere at the right time.
ORIENT EXPRESS - 1

1 week ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

Arrive outside the Orient Express Minerva in Rome and you’ll think you’re going into yet another typical palace, early 17th century. Outside the building looks classic in the way that only a Roman building can. It goes back to 1620 when it was built for the Fonseca family of Portuguese wine renown and then, early in the present century, Arsenale entrepreneur Paolo Barletta saw it at some point and decided to make a hotel out of it.
ENTRE'ACTE MAYFAIR - Girlahead Global

1 week ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

There’s always something special at Brown’s Hotel London. This time it was an introduction, once again, to P. G. Wodehouse – creator, inter alia, of Jeeves and Wooster. His full name, by the way, was Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, hence the P and the G, but he was always called Plum, a nickname derived from his inability to pronounce Pelham when he was a child.
SYBARITIC SINGLE DOESN'T ALWAYS WANT NEW

1 week ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

It’s the Sybaritic Single’s 10th return to The Chedi Muscat and he still cannot get enough of it. Two nights of Placido Domingo performing onstage of the Royal Opera House were enough to make him book the tickets, the flights and the long weekend at his favourite spot. Most staff remember him not just by name but also by his champagne and lobster thermidor preferences. The dish can absolutely rival the one served onboard Singapore Airlines A380 Suites.
CONNAUGHT CUISINE

1 week ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

Any restaurant’s a theatre, even if we’re talking about a McDonald’s or a Nando’s, certainly if the place in question is Michelin-mode. But it’s very pleasant to see a restaurant in a glorious 5-star hotel that’s comfortable and familiar and attracts families of all ages. That’s the case at Jean-Georges Vongerichten at The Connaught in London. Look at the allure above.
AMOUR - 4 - Girlahead Global

2 weeks ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

AMOUR would not have worked were it not for the support of the host hotel, or rather the host community. ForteVillage Sardegna is far more than a hotel. It’s actually eight separates. GirlAhead has always stayed in the main property, Il Castello, but also, as well as La Castello, we’ve got Villa del Parco, we’ve got Il Borgo, La Pineta, La Palm, Il Villaggio, La Dune, and Cala del Forte – giving in all, on 63 acres, 716 rooms. ForteVillage’s also home, by the way, to 1,300 staff members.
AMOUR - 3 - Girlahead Global

2 weeks ago | girlahead.com | Mary Gostelow

There were such interesting people at Amour, PLE’s romance travel show at ForteVillage Resort near Cagliari – see the image above. There was the Frenchman setting up a new luxury train that will do six-day, 4,000km circumnavigational tours round and round the French countryside, going to such places as Beaune and Annecy and Bordeaux, starting and finishing in Paris.